Comments on: I Love/Hate Windows Live Writer

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:27:04 +0000

Hi Becky,
That can happen easily enough. So claw, lady, claw. I would miss you if you weren’t there.

By: becky

becky — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:32:25 +0000

HI again Kirk, sorry I have not been in touch for a while. I seem to have fallen out with my blog and not read many others.
Hopefully I can claw my way back again

By: KirkM

KirkM — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:27:31 +0000

Follow up:
Nope, it seems to be Wordpress 2.2. Every post I had that had double dashes in the title (no matter what editor I used) stripped the CSS out of the single post page for those posts. Unfortunately I didn’t notice this until now when my theme has also been upgraded. I went through and corrected the last 4 months worth posts that had those offending dashes. I really don’t want to bother finding out whether it’s WP 2.2 or my theme or possibly both. It’s easier just to correct the titles. Go figure.

By: KirkM

KirkM — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:51:18 +0000

Hi Becky!
Glad to hear from you. I’m still pounding away on XP Pro. It’s been running pretty fair since my last re-install (two years ago? knock on wood). Perhaps when I get to the point where I can afford a new computer I’ll have Vista to play with as well. At this rate though it will be well past the release date for SP1
Be wary of WLW B2. It solved the old problems but released a whole new set of them, some of which I touched on in the latest post. Also, something I just found out…don’t use dashes in your titles (really). I had this horrible problem of any post written by WLW (beta 1 or beta 2 apparently) that has dashes in the title, strips out all the CSS styling in the single post page. Once I removed the dashes, everything was fine. I don’t know if this is just WLW, Wordpress 2.2 or a combination of both but it as driving me nuts and I just now found the solution.

Let me know how the new WLW works for you if you could. The more bugs that are found the better the final will be and all that.

By: becky

becky — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:45:44 +0000

Hi Kirk,

I haven’t tried live writer beta 2 yet, but I appreciate your thoughts on the program.
I think I need to do a ful restore of Vista first. Having a few problems with it (its a new install) so when I finish work later I am going to do a full reinstall to try and fix the bugs and then maybe look at the new live writer.